"I've done everything. All of it. You think it, I've done it. All the things you never dared, all the things you dream about, all the things you were curious about and then forgot because you knew you never would. I did 'em, I did 'em yesterday while you were still in bed. What about you? When's it gonna be your turn?"

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Source : Melvin Burgess (2010). “Smack”, p.167, Henry Holt and Company (BYR)

Melvin Burgess

#Dream Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Yesterday Quotes

“I seldom made an errand to God for another but I got something for myself.”
“I was blown away when I figured out that none of the great integrative moves that I studied came as a result of starting with a blank sheet of paper - as many innovation coaches suggest. Integrative solutions came directly from mining the existing models for the best of their nuggets. So I never start with a blank sheet of paper anymore.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz
“I don't care where I sit, as long as I get fed.”
“I submit that tennis is the most beautiful sport there is and also the most demanding. It requires body control, hand-eye coordination, quickness, flat-out speed, endurance, and that weird mix of caution and abandon we call courage. It also requires smarts. Just one single shot in one exchange in one point of a high-level match is a nightmare of mechanical variables.”
“How can I be in two places at once, unless I were a bird?”
“When people see me struggling on paper, I think it invites an almost collaborative relationship with the outside world, and that includes readers and other artists.”

Source : Interview with Nicole Rudick, believermag.com. October 1, 2007.
“I'll play for Rangers as long as I can, then spend the rest of my life being depressed”
“All I want to do is give the world my heart... Record label tryina make me compromise my art.”

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